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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect is distributed as a single executable setup file (.exe). The Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate editions require additional files and supplementary installation processes if you plan to use the SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access 2007, Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere or Oracle 9i, 10g or 11g options (see below). Please note that installation and maintenance of these database management systems is not covered under the support agreement.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The latest evaluation and registered versions of Enterprise Architect are always available from the <a href="www.sparxsystems.com" target="_blank" class="weblink">Sparx Systems</a> website. The registered version is available through the registered user area of the web site, which requires a username and password to access. These are provided upon purchase of a license.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">System Requirements</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The system requirements for installing Enterprise Architect are defined on the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/sysreq.html" target="_blank" class="weblink">Enterprise Architect | System Requirements</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> page of the Sparx Systems website.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL2"><span class="f_SubHeadingL2">Windows Vista</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Under Windows Vista (with User Account Control turned on) an application starts with only Standard permissions, regardless of what level of authority the current user has. As a result, an installer run normally with an Admin account under Vista only has Standard privileges and either is not able to write to certain critical areas of the registry/file system, or redirects the write requests to a per-user virtualized registry/file system.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Sparx Systems recommend that if you are installing on Windows Vista, always run the Enterprise Architect installer with Administrator privileges (right-click on the downloaded installer icon and select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Run as administrator</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu option).</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Install Enterprise Architect</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Run the Enterprise Architect setup program. Generally you can accept all the default options without change.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To place Enterprise Architect in a directory other than the default, enter the name of the destination when prompted.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You might be prompted to restart your computer when the installation completes. Although this is not always necessary (if you already have the components Enterprise Architect requires installed on your computer), you should restart just to be certain.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">If you intend to run Enterprise Architect on Linux, refer to the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="http://www.sparxsystems.com/support/faq/ea_on_linux.html#InstallingEAonLinux" target="_blank" class="weblink">Installation and Use</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> page on the Sparx Systems website. To support the Scripting facility in the Corporate and extended editions of Enterprise Architect, you must also install Internet Explorer 6.0 or later revisions.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate edition users planning to use SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere, Access 2007 or Oracle 9i, 10g or 11g as their model repository can access scripts that create the required data structures for the choice of DBMS. You can find these at one of the following pages:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The Corporate edition </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="www.sparxsystems.com/registered/reg_ea_corp_ed.html" target="_blank" class="weblink">Resources</a></span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> page</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The Trial Corporate edition </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="www.sparxsystems.com/resources/corporate/" target="_blank" class="weblink">Resources</a></span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> page.</span></li>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">Enterprise Architect requires </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;">Read/Write</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> access to the program files directory where Enterprise Architect has been installed.</span></p>
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